What a body can
Contact improvisation workshop
September 2025, Copenhagen
What are the bases of this practice named Contact Improvisation?
What works for me to take a step aside in order to dance and life forces be able to show their entanglement?
Description
Alessandro has visited Denmark a few times before, and participants have been raving for him to return. The workshop focuses on the forces of contact improv. We’re very proud and happy to open our doors to Alessandro again. Here are his own words about the workshop…
Gravity… how to embody this force?
It relates with falling-flying, with yielding, with the parasympathetic systems, with weight, direction, the piezelectric muscular system and skeleton system?
Momentum… how I join gravity and let it empower my movement?
Listening… can i tune with Other and have same mind, or attention, for a moment?
Body… what a body can?
Time… is that thing we measure with a clock?
Or instead… it is rythm, pulsation, movement, perception?
Space… where it begins and where it ends?
Where is the sound I listen too?
With this, and the mystery, with attention and what is behind it.
Through myself and other and the environment, can I empower presence by landing my attention with it?
Do I dance or am I danced?
Does it matter?
Practical
When
Friday September 5th, Jam 17.00 – 20.00
Saturday September 6th, Workshop 10.30 – 17.00
Sunday September 7th, Workshop 10.30 – 17.00
Where
Katrinedals skole
Drama og Dansesal
Vanløsevej 44 /
OBS! Indgang ved porten: Randbølvej 23
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HfyxTUyqGCE9vMj58
How many
Max 30 participants
Level
Let it not be your very first time trying contact improv. Otherwise come as you are. We’ll try to create a space that fits many different levels. (Ask us! ?)
Price / Registration
By paying via the stripe links and putting in your e-mail that will count as your registration. If you wish to pass your ticket on to someone else you must inform us and ask if that’s possible. Tickets are nonrefundable. If you really REALLY want to join but can’t find the cash, reach out to us.
Early bird before August 1st
650DKK workshop + jam
https://buy.stripe.com/cNi9ATdCk3B3ab6gmRabK08
50DKK just jam
https://buy.stripe.com/8x25kD55Ob3v9727QlabK0a
Program
Friday
17.00 – 20.00 Friday Jam
Saturday
10.30 – 17.00 First workshop day w. lunch break
Sunday
10.30 – 17.00 Second workshop day w. lunch break
Who is Alessandro?
I have been living dance and contact improvisation in a surrendered way as a dancer for 18 years and as a teacher for 12 (if I do not count my childhood experiences) and I had the opportunity to travel to 24 countries, offering and having classes, intensive courses, workshops, residencies and Jams with different and experienced colleagues, which probably gave me a good “floor” to start with ‘not knowing with certain quality’ …
I come from different dance schools at the somatic level and movement research, today I see that I have danced and taught a good part of my life and yet I feel that I have just started. In my practice I have been integrating various techniques and bringing the potential of dance to life.
If I ask myself between my name and my body, the second one is the dearest, and if you ask about my deepest interest in dancing and teaching the answer would be around living questions related to dance itself, to the presence and to the Big Mystery.
I hope through this illusion of you and I being separated, we can drop it, and go beyond our hanging names to explore the in-between field of existence to dance and be danced with and through the visible and invisible forces entangled at each single moment and find the way to be at the arch of beauty.
Contact
Julia Schmidt
+45 50 15 46 49
puslingpaahaender@gmail.com
Theis Egeberg
+45 21 91 81 71
theis.egeberg@gmail.com